All Outputs (11)

From a candle to content creation (2024)
Journal Article

This article gives a short tour through the changing faces of science communication, including dissemination, public understanding of science and public engagement with science and technology to engaged research.

What works in the field? Evaluating informal science events (2017)
Journal Article

Around the world, increasing numbers of people are attending informal science events, often ones that are part of multi-event festivals that cross cultural boundaries. For the researchers who take part, and the organizers, evaluating the events' succ... Read More about What works in the field? Evaluating informal science events.

Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In this commentary, we explore the factors that contributed to festival goers’ choice to attend science-based events at a summer cultural festival. We evaluated the impact of such events on the audiences: their levels of... Read More about Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival.

Beyond dissemination - Science communication as impact (2015)
Journal Article

The drive for impact from research projects presents a dilemma for science communication researchers and practitioners - should public engagement be regarded only as a mechanism for providing evidence of the impact of research or as itself a form of... Read More about Beyond dissemination - Science communication as impact.

Open science (2015)
Journal Article

Open science is the most recent paradigm shift in the practice of science. However, it is a practice that has emerged relatively recently and as such, its definition is constantly-shifting and evolving. This commentary describes the historical backgr... Read More about Open science.

Café sci East Africa: Talking with young people about science and technology (2015)
Journal Article

When Café Sci started in Ugandan schools in 2009, it was rare for scientists to visit schools to talk about their research. Former students might speak at career days and the National Council for Science and Technology set up occasional school visits... Read More about Café sci East Africa: Talking with young people about science and technology.

Review: 'Social networks and popular understanding of science and health: sharing disparities' by Brian G Southwell (2014)
Journal Article

In this book, Brian G Southwell discusses how disparities in information-sharing arise and what can be done to alleviate them. In all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons, people have always sought to share information among their family and ot... Read More about Review: 'Social networks and popular understanding of science and health: sharing disparities' by Brian G Southwell.

Peering over the shoulders of giants? (2014)
Journal Article

‘Open’ is a highly-visible cultural trend of the early twenty-first century. A brief scan of a
newspaper or quick Internet search reveals it as a prefix to learning, source, standard, data,
knowledge, democracy, access, repository, innovation, gove... Read More about Peering over the shoulders of giants?.

Café Scientifique (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Science Reviews Ltd. All rights reserved. Every month, in 700 or so bars, cafés, pubs, teahouses, shopping centres, community halls, art galleries, libraries, theatres, museums, bookshops … and a blood donation centre, 40 or so people meet to... Read More about Café Scientifique.

Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. Open science is a practice in which the scientific process is shared completely and in real time. It offers the potential to support information flow, collaboration and dialogue among professional and non-professional participan... Read More about Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science.

Open Science: A New "Trust Technology"? (2012)
Journal Article

The emerging practice of open science, which makes the entire process of a scientific investigation available, could extend membership of the research community to new, public audiences, who do not have access to science's long-established trust mech... Read More about Open Science: A New "Trust Technology"?.